NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Thursday, July 30, 2015
INCIDENTS
Glen Canyon NRA
Child's Life Saved Through Prompt EMS Response
On the morning of July 25th, park dispatch received a report of a three year-old found face down in approximately seven feet of water at the rear of a houseboat in Halls Creek Bay. The reporting party said that the child might have been in the water from five to ten minutes and was not breathing or conscious. The three-year-old was not wearing a life jacket on the houseboat when the incident occurred.
Responding rangers were on scene within 20 minutes and found that CPR was already in progress. Rangers took over patient care and transported the child to Bullfrog Marina to meet a park medic to receive advanced life support care. After initial ALS care, the child started to improve. The three-year-old was flown by Classic Lifeguard to a hospital and has since been released.
The extended CPR (over 45 minutes), breathing therapy, and advanced life support measures that were performed by park rangers along with Classic Lifeguard personnel saved the child's life.
NPS responders included Jesse Benskin, Karol Jones, Noel Rupel, Sean McCaffrey, Valerie Reynolds and Zach Nelson.
[Katie Wood, Education Coordinator]
Acadia NP
Visitor Seriously Injured When Car Rolls Over Her
On the morning of July 27th, a 38-year-old visitor sustained potentially life-threatening injuries in an accident that occurred on the Park Loop Road near the Champlain North Ridge Trailhead.
Witnesses said that members of a family got out of their vehicle at a scenic pull-off along the road and that shortly thereafter the vehicle rolled backwards towards other vehicles, park visitors, and oncoming traffic. While family members attempted to stop it by pushing against the vehicle's exterior, the driver attempted to reenter to apply the brakes.
The vehicle, however, gained momentum due to the steep slope and they were unable to stop it. In the process of attempting to enter the moving vehicle, the driver was knocked to the ground by the open car door and was subsequently overrun by the front wheel. The vehicle crossed the road and came to rest in the ditch and against the base of a cliff. The driver was transported by Bar Harbor Ambulance to a waiting Life Flight helicopter, where she was transported to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine.
Investigating rangers determined that the car's shifter was not in the ‘park' position. The driver sustained multiple chest injuries but is in stable condition.
[Stuart West, Chief Ranger]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
Southeast Archeological Center - The National Park Service has launched the first research efforts of the international Slave Wrecks Project in the Western Hemisphere through a new initiative that will survey, inventory, and assess submerged resources for the very first time at Buck Island Reef National Monument and Christiansted National Historic Site.
Fort Scott NHS - Blind and low-vision students attending a weeklong Trek Tech resident summer camp spent a recent afternoon touring Fort Scott National Historic Site. This was the second time that Trek Tech campers have visited the park.
Pacific West Region - The grand landscape of City of Rocks described by the 19th century emigrants is much the same as the one visible today, thanks to a partnership between Raft River Electric and the National Park Service.
Kennesaw Mountain NBP - Kennesaw National Battlefield Park is one of the latest national sites to receive assistance from an Americorps National Civilian Community Corps team.
Grand Canyon NP - Eric Graff, lead helitack and paramedic at Grand Canyon National Park, has received the inaugural Tom Clausing Aviation All Risk Programs Award.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
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Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
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